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Fluctuation of Copper Mine Prices and Copper Mining Companies Hopes To Increase Mining Production and Earning Profit


The average stock price for listed copper mining specialists has more than doubled from lows seen just three months ago, on hopes that a turning point for the global economy is within sight.

Tri-Valley To Advance Alaska Gold Mine Exploration and Industria Mineral Properties


Tri-Valley Corporation announced that its minerals subsidiary, Select Resources Corporation, has entered into an official stage of information exchange with industry parties to advance its Alaska gold and industrial mineral properties.

Mining Exploration Regulation Alaskans to Vote on Mining Regulation Proposal


Alaskans in the primary election will vote on Ballot Measure 4, an initiative that opponents say will kill large-scale mining in Alaska but supporters say will save Bristol Bay’s wild salmon streams from a toxic spill at the Pebble Mine.
Supporters of Ballot Measure 4 say it is needed to protect the world’s most productive wild [...]

Cheney energy panel becomes more transparent


For six years, Vice President Dick Cheney has guarded the secrecy of the discussions and participants in his energy task force, which produced a report in May 2001 calling for accelerated development of domestic oil and gas supplies to deal with the nation’s energy needs.
Now, thanks to an unidentified former White House official who provided [...]

Troubles Run Deep on Gulf Oil Platform


The day after massive Hurricane Dennis churned through the Gulf of Mexico in July 2005, a commercial vessel traveling past BP PLC’s hulking Thunder Horse oil platform radioed the bad news to its owner: The platform’s top deck was listing into the water.
When a landing party from BP arrived at the platform two days later, [...]

Uranium Mining Set to Resume 2,400 Feet from a Liberty Star Pipe Target in Its North Pipe Super Project; and Progress on Elle Joint Venture


-Liberty Star Uranium & Metals Corp. (the “Company”) is pleased to announce that it has changed its name, effective at the open of trading April 16, 2007, from Liberty Star Gold Corp. The new stock symbol is LBSU. The name change was made to reflect the Company’s current concentrated efforts on its North Pipes Super [...]

Camec in £100m bid for Australian uranium miner


Camec, the African-mining group run by the former England spin bowler Phil Edmonds, has targeted expansion in the booming market for uranium after launching an offer for OmegaCorp that values the Australian miner at nearly £100m.
Uranium prices have surged 20 per cent to $113 a pound over the past week, the highest level since the [...]

Camec in £100m bid for Australian uranium miner


Camec, the African-mining group run by the former England spin bowler Phil Edmonds, has targeted expansion in the booming market for uranium after launching an offer for OmegaCorp that values the Australian miner at nearly £100m.
Uranium prices have surged 20 per cent to $113 a pound over the past week, the highest level since the [...]

China’s appetite fort metals remains unsated


Rio Tinto Group, the world’s third-largest mining company, said China’s demand for metals will likely rise, underpinning high prices for commodities this year.
Mining companies globally have been hampered from expanding capacity to meet Chinese demand by shortages of labor and equipment, Paul Skinner, chairman of the London-based Rio Tinto, said in its annual report filed [...]